The first look
is of some workshop buildings outside the entrance to the First Auschwitz camp
and administrative headquarters.

Moving right you
see the SS Guardhouse and the famous gate with Arbeit Macht Frei (roughly, “Work
Will Make You Free” over the entrance. This is where prisoners marched
to and from slave labor (See [link] in
the exhibition “Then and Now”).

Continuing to move
right you see a small air raid shelter for the guards just to the right of the
large tree, and then the long, low, camp kitchen with its many chimneys. The
large building with the peaked roof is the reception, or admissions building,
partially ready only in late 1943. It received only one or two transports.